Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-01-29

by the company few days ago from
546 west Fortieth street TO % Ridge
street. II had been received in Ridge
street by Edward Unger, who signed
the receipt for il aud paid the express,
man forty cents The detectives found
Ungor's door locked. They learned from
the landlady, Mrs. Fauser, that the
trunk had been carried out of UBgers
rooms on Saturday morning. She con
Guided from the way the trunk was
being handled that il was very heavy
At noon yesterday the three detectives
stood in the doorway OF AL Grand
street which commands n view OF
Ungor's house. About 3 p. NJ. Unger
came along. lie started to 60 in, but
suddenly turned about and walked
down Ridge street toward Grand. The
detectives then stepped out of their
hiding-place and arrested him. After
he had been locked up Inspector
Rvrncs went with the detectives to y
Ridge street. 4,s -
Ungcroccupied the front half OF top
floor apartment. A German laundress
lives with her husband in the rear half.
A door connects the two apartments,
Int it is kept locked. Thcpolice found
Unger's door locked. They got the
kew from the groceIyman on the ground
floor and entered They discovered the
blood-stains already described.
About ; o'clock Unger's eighteen
yoar-old son Edward came home from
his work, and the detectives questioned
him. He said that August BOltz had
been stopping with his father for seve-
raj DAYS. On Saturday he missed BOltz,
and asked his father where he was. His
father told him that Boltz and himself
had quarrelled, and that Boltz had gone
back TO Chicago and he would never see
him again. His father had previously
told him that BoltZ had lot of money,
besides bonds in England and Chi
cago. On Monday, the lad said, his
father stayed at home, and spent the
day scrubbing the floor and scratching
the wall. He never saw his father act
so duecrly before. Two of the de-
toctivcs locked themselves in the room
with young Unger for several hours,
questioning him and searching the
premises. About 9 % o'clock last night
they took young Unger to police head
quarters, where he was locked up as a
witness.
The detectives brought with them
the tools which Unger is believed TO
have used in killing and cutting up
Poltz. No trace of the dead mans
head was found.
Aftcrromo,ing the bloody bed-cloth
ing and implements from the Ridge
Street House to police headquarters, the
detectives made a further search of the
rooms. They founda handbook show
ing deposits to the amount OF over
g, 100 in the Franklin Savings Bank at
Forty-second street and Eighth avenue.
The deposits were III the name OF An
gust Bohle, and this is supposed to be
the real name of the murdered man.
Besides the handbook, the detectives
found score or more of the red labels
of the plate-glass company, one Of
which was found or the trunk and men
toned i'll all the telegraphed descrip-
tons.
The building 5l6west Fortieth street,
from which the trunk was sent TO y
Ridge street, is fvc-Story tenement
hcnse, situated Just back of the Tow of
houses known as Hel's Kitchen. -
There is a restaurant on The ground
floor, and Charles Roborg, the proprie-
tor, keeps few boardcrs. He said
last night that he had had no one there
by the name Of August Roitz, and that
10 Trunk had been taken away from
there that he remembered of. He said
he had an elderly man and his son
there Il little while in December, but
they got TO fighting and he put them ont
january 1st From his description
these do not answer for Ungcr and his
son. Everybody in the house pro-
fessed ignorance Of August Boltz or of
the fingers.
The people who occupy the room
next to Captain Unger's do not remem-
Der hearing any disturbance in Ungcr's
rooms on Friday night, when. it is sup
posed, Eotz was killed. The SUPPOSE
lion OF the police is that Unger killed
Boltz while Boltz WAS asleep in bed.
Robbery is thought to have been the
motive.
c. Kaufhold, whose name appears on
the shirt found on the body, is not
known in Ridge street. 4 man Of that
name, however, is in the Kew York Hos
pital. John Ludwig, who once worked
for Butcher Siegel, knows Captain TN
ger. He denies that he knows anything
OF the murder.
Captain Ungcr is fifty-two years old.
He is a big man, and has gray hair and
moustache. He was formerly "a sea
captain, but for many years has been
peddler. 1t is not known at - Ridge
street whether or not 'he has wife
living. He went to live there last Sep
TENDER. His son, who lived with him,
works in a printing-ofiice at ID Cedar
street.